The Universal Home Doctor

The Universal Home Doctor

by SimonArmitage (Author)

Synopsis

As the title implies, Simon Armitage's flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. Vivid and engaged, the poems range from the rainforests of South America to the deserts of Western Australia, but are set against the ultimate and most intimate of all landscapes, the human body. Equally, the body politic comes into question, through subtle enquiries into Englishness and the idea of home.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 19 May 2003

ISBN 10: 0571218601
ISBN 13: 9780571218608
Book Overview: The Universal Home Doctor by Simon Armitage is a flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys, which reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health.

Author Bio
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. A recipient of numerous prizes and awards, he has published eleven collections of poetry, including Seeing Stars (2010), Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 (2014) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). He also writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers All Points North (1998), Walking Home (2012) and Walking Away (2015). His theatre works include The Last Days of Troy, performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. In 2015 he was appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University.